As sport and leisure activities take a greater role in encouraging an enhanced work-life balance, we are proud to be entrusted with the delivery of iconic and flagship developments within this sector.

Many of these are of international significance that bring benefit and pleasure to local communities and which leave a lasting, positive legacy.

Sisk-built arenas such as the Aviva Stadium and Croke Park in Dublin to create excitement for millions, as do major cultural projects such as Grand Canal Square, a stunning commercial and cultural development located in the heart of the city’s regenerated docklands district.

Whether budget or five-star, we specialise in the delivery of hotel developments. Our teams have built for many prestigious operators, stand-alone boutique brands and quality chains with multiple sites in mixed-use developments.

SelectedPROJECTS

The Curragh Racecourse, Co. Kildare

Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland

The Aviva Stadium is a 50,000 seat arena and is Ireland’s first UEFA Elite Stadium. The €285m stadium is located at Lansdowne Road, Ballsbridge an affluent residential suburb 2 km south of Dublin city centre. All of John Sisk & Son's building experience was brought to bear on this project to deal with the many complex facets which it presented, including management of the very complex steel roof structure through to managing neighbourhood issues and numerous environmental concerns due to adjacent parks and waterways.

2011 British Construction Industry Award (BCIA) - Best International Project.

This award recognises excellence in UK and International Building & Engineering Projects.

International Convention Centre Wales (ICC Wales)

The location, which includes sports and leisure facilities features a 1,500-seat auditorium and separate exhibition hall which, at 4,000m2, provides the largest pillar-free ballroom in Europe, capable of hosting 2,400 people.

The ICC Wales is located within the busy environment of the internationally-acclaimed Celtic Manor Resort Hotel in Newport, South Wales. This required us to utilise all our skills in minimising disruption to the live environment.

Royal Artillery Barracks

Constructed as an iconic location for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Royal Artillery Barracks shooting venues were delivered by Sisk with sustainability and the innovative use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) at the heart of our strategy.

The three orange, pink and blue dotted buildings - completed in January of that year - were skinned in a white, double-curved membrane façade, studded with vibrantly coloured openings for natural ventilation and access, utilising 18,000m² of fully-recyclable PVC membrane that is free of phthalates; binding agents that are thought to be harmful to health. Inside, they housed 3,800 seats divided between partially enclosed ranges and saw 200,000 visitors and event-goers walk through the doors over the course of the games.

Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland

Located close to Dublin city centre, Croke Park was redeveloped into a world class 82,000 seat stadium and bears testimony to a sustained effort by the client, the design team and John Sisk & Son as the main contractor.

Constructed around and within a live arena, the Sisk management team provided a new facility to the highest international standards, while seamlessly accommodating the client’s seasonal cycles.

Developed in four main phases for €165m, the stadium was returned to the client for selected weekends in each sporting year to suit the GAA’s games programmes, and each time with increased seating capacity.

The complex now offers corporate hospitality, an interactive museum, lecture and conference facilities and hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh, Cork

The redeveloped Páirc Uí Chaoimh is now an impressive, modern facility which has already made a very positive impact, providing a wonderful experience for both players and spectators alike, and whose high-class facilities for conferences and exhibitions have attracted new visitors and businesses to the area.

We have delivered some of the most iconic stadia and leisure facilities in Europe

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Ajaz Shafi

Ajaz is a civil engineer with over 30 years’ experience working for major contracting organisations in the UK, Hong Kong, India and the Middle East. His experience covers a range of challenging and complex project deliveries. Ajaz looks after our Birmingham and London portfolio of projects as part of the UK South business unit.

Donal McCarthy

Donal is Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Ireland and all business sectors in Europe. He is also MD for Ireland East and has held numerous positions since re-joining the company in 2002 following an eight-year period working in the construction industry in New York. Prior to that he worked as a graduate engineer with Sisk, having joined the company in 1990.